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The Magnificent Ambersons

Real life screened more daringly than it’s ever been before!

1942 · NR · 1h 28m

Directed by Orson Welles

7.3

TMDB audience score
508 votes, out of 10

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Synopsis

The spoiled young heir to the decaying Amberson fortune comes between his widowed mother and the man she has always loved.

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Cast

  • Joseph Cotten
    Eugene Morgan

  • Dolores Costello
    Isabel Amberson Minafer

  • Anne Baxter
    Lucy Morgan

  • Tim Holt
    George Minafer

  • Agnes Moorehead
    Fanny Minafer

  • Ray Collins
    Jack Amberson

  • Erskine Sanford
    Roger Bronson

  • Richard Bennett
    Major Amberson

  • Orson Welles
    Narrator (voice)

  • Edwin August
    Citizen (uncredited)

  • Georgia Backus
    Matron (uncredited)

  • Harry A. Bailey
    Citizen (uncredited)

  • Olive Ball
    Mary (Maid) (uncredited)

  • Jack Baxley
    Reverend Smith (uncredited)

  • William Blees
    Young Man at Accident (uncredited)

  • Lyle Clement
    Citizen (uncredited)

  • Bobby Cooper
    George Minafer as a Boy (uncredited)

  • Don Dillaway
    Wilbur Minafer (uncredited)